President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will, on Saturday, leave Abuja for Berlin, Germany, to attend the G20 Compact with Africa (CwA) Conference on November 20, 2023, hosted by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The president will be accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Yusuf Tuggar; the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance,…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has nullified the election of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State. Recall that a three-man panel of judges led by Justice Oluyemi Akintan Osadebay had sacked Yusuf on September 20, 2023, by declaring 165,663 of his votes invalid. The court said the votes were invalid because they…
Justice Hamza Muazu of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, has ordered that the immediate past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN, Godwin Emefiele, be remanded in Kuje prison pending the determination of his request for bail. At his trial before the court today, November 17, the court ruled…
Ademola Banks, counsel representing Isese activist, Abdulazeez Adegbola, aka Tani Olohun, said his client will regain his freedom today, Friday, November 17. Adegbola has been in detention at the Correctional Service in Ilorin since August 17, following his arraignment on five counts of alleged criminal conspiracy, inciting public disturbance, disturbance of public peace, criminal defamation…
The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, met with England’s Queen Camilla at the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition Awards Ceremony. Sanwo-Olu was accompanied by his wife, Ibijoke, according to photos shared on the governor’s Facebook page on Friday. The photos were captioned, “My wife, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu and I were guests of Her Majesty The…
A retired Permanent Secretary with the Oyo State Government, Ms. Elizabeth Olaniyan Gbenle, was gruesomely murdered by unknown assailants in her house in Ibadan, the state capital. According to the Nigerian Tribune, the incident happened at the deceased’s residence, along All Saints College Road, Idi Ishin, off NIHORT area of Ibadan between Thursday and Friday…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the last general elections, Atiku Abubakar, provided huge financial support to the Kogi State governorship candidate of the party, Dino Melaye, but the efforts did not pay off, top party sources told SaharaReporters on Thursday. It will be recalled that in August 2022, Atiku appointed…
According to Yesufu, while religious rulers need bad governance to sell cheap miracles, political rulers need the citizens to be kept subjugated. She made her view known in a post on her X account on Thursday. Yesufu wrote: “I have always told you people that the political rulers and the religious rulers are in…
Reno Omokri believes that any political party that features Peter Obi as its presidential candidate or running mate in 2027 will lose. Reno shared his opinion on his Instagram page this afternoon November 16, while reacting to news of the Labour party rejecting Atiku Abubakar’s call for opposition parties to merge to confront the ruling…
A woman said to be in her 80s died during a partial collapse of a two-storey building located at number 34 Oloto Street, Borno Way, off Freeman Street, Oyingbo, Lagos Mainland Local Government Area of the state on Thursday morning, November 16. The incident occurred at about 7.45 am. Permanent Secretary, of Lagos State…